Red tunicate and Caulerpa Mexicana???

[CJWilliams]

Got some livestock pieces from TBS. Any ideas on the red stuff and green stuff on this front red rock???

Not sure about the white polyp looking things either.

 

[logibear]

From what I’ve seen the white thing looks like it is a hidden cup coral.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

The green is caulerpa. The white polyp things are hidden cup coral.

Very cool rock!!

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

@ISpeakForTheSeas , can you help with the ID of the red thing?

 

[jabberwock]

Got some livestock pieces from TBS. Any ideas on the red stuff and green stuff on this front red rock???

Not sure about the white polyp looking things either.

Holy Jack Pot Batman!

Agree with tunicates, cup coral and the green stuff ID.

Now all this stuff may not thrive in your tank perpetually, you may loose some of it, but what a great start!

Keep an eye out for whelks (leopard print is the give away) and gorilla crabs. Whelks you can pretty much snag at leisure. For gorilla crabs, snatch the rock out and evict with extreme prejudice. Long tweezers to force them out of the rocks. Even small ones can kill fish. Traps are hit or miss.

Porcelain crabs are the only good crabs ever in the history of the hobby... The waving filter feeding mouthparts are the give away.

Let us know what else you find!

 

[CJWilliams]

So I had this orange blob that I posted in the hitcherhiker thread.

 

[CJWilliams]

They gave me a ruby mithrax crab.

 

[CJWilliams]

I love that rock. Hope it all stays alive. Kept it all in a QT for about 2 weeks with trap and a peppermint shrimp. Caught a couple worms.

 

[jabberwock]

They gave me a ruby mithrax crab.

I had one of those too from TBS. It was murder on algae. Regrettably, I did not trust. I never saw it misbehave, but I stuck it in the sin bin anyway.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

So I had this orange blob that I posted in the hitcherhiker thread.

Hair worm

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

@ISpeakForTheSeas , can you help with the ID of the red thing?

Almost certainly a colonial tunicate of some variety (the striping on the holes isn't uniform in number across the holes from what I can see, so that eliminates corals; additionally, the striping doesn't really occur on sponges, but it's fairly common on tunicates).

For the OP, some colonial tunicates can be extremely invasive; I don't know that yours are, but to be safe, I'd isolate the rock their on so that you can easily contain them if needed. Other than that, colonial tunicates are harmless filter feeders and pretty neat.